Russ_16v's ITB'd & Caged 182 Track Car (Was Crispy's)

[.Kev.]

Epic build matey, very nice.

 

[bomber]

christ, NCB FTW. im paying £400 less than that for the charged clio

 

[Jonny1*2]

are you going to have to roll the arches Chris?

 

[stevo172-RWD]

I could not get insured with a cage.
Who are u with?

 

[jenic]

Brentacre and Flux were the only one's who would touch me with a cage. Mine isn't even a proper one ffs, they all said its because if you have a cage its usually because your planning to need it!

 

[bomber]

I'm with flux, caged, stripped, supercharged, and every mod declared like for like I'm paying about £650 stevo

 

[Jonny1*2]

why would you declare a cage? surely it's a good thing to have more protection?

 

[jenic]

why would you declare a cage? surely it's a good thing to have more protection?

My old insurance company actually said no cages lol

Most mods make your car safer when you think about it. (suspension, brakes, arb's, harness+cage)

 

[Jonny1*2]

Cu*ts the lot of them

 

[bomber]

need to declare everything, theyll do what they can to not pay out

 

[Gray]

need to declare everything, theyll do what they can to not pay out

This.


Some people must be crazy to drive around with cages, bucket seats etc. etc. and not have it declared... as good as driving around with no insurance!

 

[jenic]

This.


Some people must be crazy to drive around with cages, bucket seats etc. etc. and not have it declared... as good as driving around with no insurance!

Some people have been known to drive round in a stripped out ITB'd 182 track car for a few months without declaring it.

Cough*chris*Cough

 

[jamie rigby]

how much were the spacers, link pleaseeeeee?, i want some 10mm ones

 

[Fletcher]

why would you declare a cage? surely it's a good thing to have more protection?

It doesn't work like that. I have every mod on my 172 declared!

 

[chrispy.clio]

how much were the spacers, link pleaseeeeee?, i want some 10mm ones

I bought mine from eBay and paid just over £100 for eibach pro spacers. For 10mm it won't be that expensive .

 

[jamie rigby]

100quid :O, and cheers ill see what i can find

 

[Silent_Scone]

Did they come with the bolts, Chris?

 

[chrispy.clio]

Yeah they came with the bolts, they are nice and light as their made out of alloy. Cheap ones are made out of steel and can still cost £50

 

[adam172]

Same spacers as I got matey very good quality I got mine from venom motorsport

 

[Tony Hunter]

Same as ours,very good quality.(we slipped a 5mm one in behind as well)

 

[adam172]

Tony are you running +35mm on each side or +30mm

 

[Tony Hunter]

30mm,25mm+5mm on the front 15mm on the rear.

 

[adam172]

ah ok, mine are just 30mm spacers and i was thinking maybe 35mm would be a tad to much

 

[chrispy.clio]

Well as I have et 37 on my wheels so with 25 mm spacers each side it sits the wheels out quite nicely

 

[Nafoff]

what are spacers?....lol

 

[chrispy.clio]

what are spacers?....lol

Have you had the equivelent of facebook r*pe on CS?

 

[bomber]

Correct offset wheels

 

[Nafoff]

Have you had the equivelent of facebook r*pe on CS?

Correct offset wheels

WHAT HE SAID....xxx

 

[chrispy.clio]

WHAT HE SAID....xxx

Arrrrrr I see now lol

 

[Grant89]

Been following your thread for a while now and the car looks epic :approve:

I saw in the thread you mentioned about the tow straps, i've just got a TRS one for the front of mine, its only a short one, but was wondered how you fitted yours and if you had to cut the front lower grill to feed it through as the solid webbing near the fixing bracket won't flex enough to go through the hole in the front grill and is too long to have tucked behind and just have the flexible part of the strap poking out??

Any help would be great, cheers.

 

[chrispy.clio]

Thanks mate,

I've not fitted my tow strap yet but yes you will need to trim the grill for it go through. I also don't know what bolt you need as I've not looked into it' if you still have your standard tow eye the measure the thickness of the bolt and try find one on eBay. I've sold my tow eye

 

[Tony Hunter]

We drilled ours out and fitted a long bolt all the way through,used it like a sleeve.

 

[Grant89]

Thanks mate,

I've not fitted my tow strap yet but yes you will need to trim the grill for it go through. I also don't know what bolt you need as I've not looked into it' if you still have your standard tow eye the measure the thickness of the bolt and try find one on eBay. I've sold my tow eye

I managed to do it in the end mate, luckily had a bolt large enough laying around at work, it's an M16 by about 50mm long like others on here have said, i cut it a bit longer and spaced it out with a few washers. And yeah, just cut the original tow eye hole into a thin rectangle just enough so i could poke it through

I've gotta do the back one while i'm in work today hopefully in time for Brands Hatch on Thursday :S, going to try and poke it between the plastic strip on the bumper as mine hasn't been removed like yours has

 

[Tony Hunter]

 

[Grant89]

I attempted to fit my rear one today but couldn't manage to get the plastic strip off in the middle, prised all the bottom clips out but couldn't get to the top ones due to the polystyrene crash protection stuff behind the bumper so gonna have a go at it again tomo and see how far i get lol!

That's a really good idea though with the bracket so it sits straight, may have to redo my front one like this too so it sits behind the bumper properly instead of being kinked behind.

 

[Tony Hunter]

It was a hefty old bracket,but it works as the car had to pulled out the gravel trap at Brands last year.

 

[chrispy.clio]

No stickers

 

[Silent_Scone]

what a lovely front garden

sitting pretty mate, love those wheels

 

[Nafoff]

looks awesome

 

[Jonny1*2]

ultralegerras anyone Not wild colour themes planned mate? Looks too plain